It’s that time of year again! The Best of 2013 lists are slowly starting to come out of the woodwork, and getting a head start on the proceedings this year we have two very respected journals for film criticism: the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine and the iconic French journal Cahiers du Cinema. There is actually a fair bit of overlap between both lists with Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake, Jia Zhang Ke’s A Touch of Sin and Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Colour all getting nods. There are also a few surprises including Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, which apparently did not get released in France until this year. Still, there are bound to be a few movies here that weren’t on your radar previously. Check out both lists after the jump and let us know what you think.

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The cahiers list is laughable. Having a piece of shit like Spring Breakers in your top 10 is shameful. WATCH BETTER FILMS!

Boris the Blade

Very good list, I like this.

patrik

Too early with these lists for me. There’s an entire month left of the year, one which usually produces some great movies. Maybe they simply want to get ahead of the end of the year list storm.

Julian Carrington

Meh. Get better taste.

Sancar Seckiner

2013 is terrible year for cinema. 2012 was much better.

Anthony

Or opinions.

matteo bagnato

uhm. get better criticism. Spring Breakers is a masterpiece and and a devstating critique to spectacle. If you want to enjoy yourself watching a moovie go see Tarantino. If you want to think, Korine is the man.

Sam

Completely disagree. Directly comparing both and looking back at the last few years, I’d say 2013 is among the stronger years going back to 2007.